Las imágenes barajadas en Cartucho de Nellie Campobello

Abstract

This article offers a reading of Cartucho: relatos de la lucha en el norte de México by choreographer Nellie Campobello. The analysis locates the gestation of said work within the context of avant-garde movements in which the author participated as a central figure in traditional Mexican dance. Special attention is given to the technique of collage, a primordial visual aspect for the vanguards associated with this work through narrative fragments. The Mexican Revolution and the Guerra Cristera shattered the country during two decades. Through collage, it is possible to appreciate how Campobello turns rupture into the aesthetic that shapes the fragments of Cartucho, as well as the therapeutic function of narration itself as a life experience of the generations that grew up during the armed conflict.